Giving your point, what concerns me even more is the complete decline of cultural diversity, people are just the same, whether they live east/west/south/north of the globe, digital globalization is killing diversity and leaves no room for cultural exchange, we often forget that we are the story, and if we are not able to tell our story, someone will come and tell it, using their own version of it, which might not even align to the original one, and if we try claim the story, it's already too late, we have seen it happening and it will continue to happen all over the world.

and this is absolutely applicable to privacy, the next generations will grow up in a society where surveillance is the normality and privacy is something of the past.

I speak english, italian and arabic. and it's so much fun to switch between the three with other multi-linguals, personally sometimes i find hard to switch to english after speaking italian for a long period of time, and when i read english text i tend to pronounce the numbers it italian as it feels much easier and has more sense for me.

I think it's overall a fun experience.

I wasn't talking about saying things publicly, i was pointing towards the fact that even private conversations would be surveilled, hence, any joke or discussion made would be question to suspicion without intended targeting.

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Totally agreed, but that doesn't only apply to arabs, as I personally notice a lot of italians (for example) doing it (mixing english with italian), and for both the motives are different whether it is globalization, colonization or the famous sense of western and/or white supermacy.

Personally i only do code switching with other multi-linguals, but other than that it would only seem pretentious and not very polite.

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